The Hydropolitics of Dams Engineering or

As we enter a time when human influence is so profoundly shaping the natural world, water is a prime focus for our technologies and victim of our largely unintended pressures. In particular, large dams exert an array of profound effects on ecosystems and the services that they provide to society and this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate systems and technologies.

Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa The Hydropolitics of Dams charts its way through these troubled waters by looking at the history, benefits and down-sides of dams and alternative technologies practiced across the world, before exploring political, economic, legal and many other dimensions and concluding with an exploration of international water management policy.

Dr. Mark Everard's work in all four sectors of society - private, public, academic and voluntary - has taken him across five continents to undertake applied research, policy development and capacity-building relating to the ways in which people connect with ecosystems. The author of six other books, over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and over 150 technical magazine articles, Mark is also a communicator on sustainability and wider aquatic matters on TV and radio. He has served on numerous government advisory and expert groups in the UK, as well as advising other governments and multinational corporations on sustainability matters. His specialty is on the water environment, land uses across the catchments that influence it, the pressures that people impose upon it and the many often unrecognized benefits that they derive from it. Mark's work includes environmental ethics and economics as a means to bring our intimate interdependencies with ecosystems into the mainstream of public awareness and government thinking.

Introduction

PART I: DEVELOPMENT, WATER AND DAMS
1. Re-Plumbing The Modern World
2. Temples Of The Modern World
3. Stemming The Flow
4. A Changing Mindset
5. The World Commission On Dams And Beyond
6. The State Of Play With Dams
7. Dams And Ecosystem Services
8. A New Agenda For Dams
PART II: WATER IN THE POST-MODERN WORLD

9. Water In The Post-Modern World
10. Managing Water At Landscape Scale
11. Catchment Production And Storage
12. Water Consumption And Reuse
13. Markets For Water Services
14. Water In The Built Environment
PART III: RETHINKING WATER AND PEOPLE

15. Living Within The Water Cycle
16. Governance Of Water
17. Tools For Sustainable Water Management
18. Principles For Sustainable Water Sharing

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